Peru: do I pray instead of food?

From the 90s, the incessant expansion of the mining in the region of Cajamarca leaves without grounds hundreds of peasants and changes his lives. The population defends or attacks the mining company.

Social conflicts have exploded or they are still latent. According to the Defensoría of the People of Peru, the mining is the cause of 70 % of the social conflicts.

Only in Cajamarca, in last December 14 conflicts existed associate environmental assets and three latent ones.

And the fact is that from the benefits of the mining boom in Peru most of the Peruvians are excluded.

Those that, as there it sentenced Antonio Raimondi (1824-1890), Italian investigator of the flora, fauna and Peruvian geology, keep on being “beggars sat in a golden bank”.